Research areas

The research group investigates journalism across media and journalism's social and historical perspectives, popular journalistic forms, journalistic ethics, journalism's role in society; online journalism, journalistic work processes, as well as reorientation in journalism in general. In addition journalism research focuses on various journalistic genres: sports journalism, culture, journalism, magazine journalism, crime reporting, health journalism and war journalism.

Journalistic Reorientations

Journalistiske nyorientering is a research project founded by the Norwegian Research Council (NRC). The project investigates how the Internet impacts the roles and functions of journalism's normative foundations, its political economy, its professional practices, its democratic functions and its audiences.

Journalism research at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies